The holidays tend to magnify gift-giving into something louder than it needs to be with the endless lists and urgency. Somewhere along the way, the …
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Too Early, Too Late, All at Once: Navigating November’s Beauty Tension
As a makeup artist and business owner, I feel this tension sharply. I’m told to bombard — to post, create, share, and sell — because …
The Slow Review of a Beautiful Moment
There are things we think we know right away such as whether we like something, whether we feel beautiful, and whether it worked. But beauty …
Embodying a Space: The Intimate Art of Dressing Its Essence
The Girl Gets the Guy *After the Eyeliner*
There’s something weirdly magnetic about a movie makeover. The girl steps out from behind her old hairstyle, the camera pans up, and boom, she’s visible, …
Chasing the Chase
Born in 1987 (barely), I’m a Millennial. I grew up on a steady diet of TV shows and movies that centered around a girl, living …
Let’s Tell the Truth
Let’s tell the truth. Makeup is not salvation. It is not a time machine. It will not make you young again, nor will it deliver …
A Lip Color Warm Up
Sometimes, experimenting with beauty comes from curiosity. What would it feel like to step a little outside your comfort zone, just enough to see yourself …
Burning Down Beauty’s Old House to See What’s Left
The modern day beauty industry was built on scaffolding that’s starting to rot: filters, referral codes, marketing gimmicks, and the manufactured scarcity of “limited editions.” …
What Makes Me Come Alive
Sometimes I wonder if I’m chasing beauty, or if beauty has been chasing me all along. My favorite kind of beauty lives in the in-between. …